Witness vs Happen - What's the difference?
witness | happen |
Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
* Shakespeare
One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
* Shakespeare
* R. Hall
Someone called to give evidence in a court.
Something that serves as evidence; a sign.
* Bible, Genesis xxxi. 51, 52
To furnish proof of, to show.
* 1667': round he throws his baleful eyes / That '''witness'd huge affliction and dismay — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1 ll. 56-7
To take as evidence.
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To see or gain knowledge of through experience.
* R. Hall
* Marshall
To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.
* 1998 , "Niebuhr, Reinhold", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy , volume 6?, page 842
To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.
To occur or take place.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.
To encounter by chance.
* 1860 , , The Marble Faun , ch. 30:
(obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.
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As nouns the difference between witness and happen
is that witness is attestation of a fact or event; testimony while happen is morsel.As a verb witness
is to furnish proof of, to show.witness
English
Noun
(es)- She can bear witness , since she was there at the time.
- May we with the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?
- As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.
- Thyself art witness I am betrothed.
- Upon my looking round, I was witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.
- The witness for the prosecution did not seem very credible.
- Laban said to Jacob, This heap be witness', and this pillar be ' witness .
Derived terms
* expert witness * eyewitness * key witness * principal witnessVerb
(es)- This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.
- He witnessed the accident.
- This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity.
- General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace.
- Instead, Niebuhr's God was the God witnessed to in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, the Bible of the Christian world.
- to witness a bond or a deed
Synonyms
* certifyAnagrams
*happen
English
Verb
(en verb)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
- Unexpectedly, in a nook close by the farmhouse, he happened upon a spot where the vintage had actually commenced.